US447680A - Registering-gate - Google Patents

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E. R. GUERRA. RBGISTBRING GATE.

No; 447,680. y Patented Mar. 3, 1891.

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E. R. GUERRA. RBGISTERING GATE.

Patented Mar. 3, 1891.

W/ TN E SSE S %1 ATT NEYS UNITED STATES PATENT @Finca ELIAS R. GUERRA, OF HACIENDA DE SAN MAT AS, JALISCO, MEXlCO.

REGlSTERlNG-GATE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 447,680, dated March 3, 1891.

Application led March 13, 1890. ,Serial No. 343,760. (No model.)

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lle it known that I, ELIAS R. GUERRA, of Hacienda de San Matias, Jalisco, Republic of Mexico, a citizen of Mexico, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Registering-Gates, of which the following is a specification.

The object of my invention is to provide a new and improved registering-gate which when opened in one direction automatically registers the number of persons passing, but can be opened in the opposite direction without registering.

The invention consists in the construction and combination of parts and details, as will be fully described hereinafter, and finally pointed out in the claims.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure l is an elevation of myimproved registering-gate, parts being in section. Fig. 2 is a vertical transverse sectional view of the same on the line .r m, Fig. l. Fig. 3 is a plan view, parts being broken out. Fig. at is an enlarged detail sectional view showing the arrangement of the arms; and Fig. 5 is a horizontal sectional view on the line g/ y, Fig. l.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts.

The standards A A are arranged at cach side of the gate-opening and are fixed at the top and bottom, and on each of said standards a number of sleeves B are mounted to turn, from each of which sleeves B a iixed arm C projects toward the opposite standard and an arm C at right angles to the arm C. From each sleeve B a stud D projects through a segmental slot E in the standard and carries on its inner end a pulley F, against which a wire rope or cable G rests. Said wire rope or cable is guided above and below the pulley F between two pulleys Il, mounted on fixed pins in the tubular standard. A powerful spring J is secured in the tubular standard and rests against the pulleyFat the side opposite the one resting against the pulley ll and brings said pulley in contact with the cable. The lower end of the wire rope or cable G passes under a pulley K some dist-ance below one of the standards, and then passes over a pulley L midway between the stand ards and below the iioor, and is then secured to a wedge-shaped piece M, mounted to slide in a track O, which wedge is drawn in the direction of the arrow 9o', Fig. 3, by a spring N, secured to said wedge and to some fixed object.

A platform Q, which is pivoted at Q under the fixed platform R, is provided with a downwardly-projecting lug R', having a roller R2, that rests on the top of the wedgeshaped slide M. An arm S ot' the hinged platform Q is connected with a pull-rod T, passing up through the corresponding tubular standard A and connected at its upper end with the counting mechanism lV, of any approved form, shape, or construction.

The operation is as follows: The wedgeshaped slide M is normally in the position shown in Fig. 2, and as the roller R2 on the lug R rests upon it it keeps the platform Q in horizontal position. A person moving in the direction of the arrow y2, Fig. 3, and who wishes to pass the gate must press the arms C in the direction of the arrow y', Figs. 3 and 5. Thereby the wire rope G is looped orbent by the pulley F between the pulleys ll, and as the upper end of the rope is fixed to the standard and such loop or bend is formed by each arm C it follows that the lower part of said wire rope G is pulled upward and the wedge-shaped slide M is pulled in the inverse direction of the arrow 0;', thus permitting the platform Q to swing downward under the action of the weight. of the person stepping upon it. As the platform Q swings down, the rod T is pulled down, and thereby the counting mechanism XV is operated. As soon as the person has passed the gate and released the arms C the spring N contracts and pulls the wedge-shaped slide M in the direction of the arrowo, whereby the platform Q is raised and the arms C are swung in the inverse direction of the arrow y into their normal positions. ln some cases the gate is to register the persons passing in one direction only and not those in the other direction. If a person passes in the inverse direction and swings the arms from a normal position in the inverse direction of the arrows y', the wire rope G is not acted upon by the pulleys F, but remains in its normal condition, and the spring J is brought in tension, and after the person has passed said spring J throws the arms C back into the normal position. Then the IOC wire rope G is not pulled upward by the action of the pulleys F on said wire rope, the wedge-shaped slide M is not pulled in the inversedirection of the arrow x', but remains in the position shown in Fig. 2, and thus prevents the platform Q from moving down under thegweight of the person upon it, and when said platform does not swing down the registering device is not operated. .It thus follows that the gate will only register persons passing in one direction and not persons passing in the opposite direction. Such gates can be used on ferry-entrances, public grounds, dac., where the same gate is to be used for entrance and exit, but it is only desired to count the number of persons entering.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patentl. In a gate, the combination, with two standards, of a series of independently-swing ing arms on the same, a platform, a registering device connected with said platform, and a connection between the several arms and the platform, so as to permit said platform to descend when the arms are swung in one direction, substantially as set forth.

2. In a gate, the combination, with two standards, of a` series of independently-swinging arms on the same, a platform, a slide supporting said platform, a rope connected with the swinging arms and with said slide, and a registering device connected with said platform, substantially as set forth.

3. In a gate, the combination, with 'two standards, of aserics of independently-swinging arms on the same, a platform, a slide below the platform, a rope connecting the several arms with the slide, a spring acting on said slide, and a registering device connected with said platform, substantially as set forth.

LI. In a gate, the combination, with two standards, of swinging arms on the same, a vertically-swin ging platform, a wedge-shaped slide below said platform and serving to support it in normal position, a rope connecting said slide with the arms, a spring acting on said slide, and a registering or counting device connected with said platform, substantially as set forth.

5. The combination, with two tubular standards, of. a series of -independently-swinging arms on the same, pulleys on thc inner ends of the arms, fixed pulleys in the standards above and below the pulleys on the arms, a rope passing through the standards and having its upper end fixed, which rope passes between the fixed pulleys and the pulleys on the arms7 a spring fixed to the standard and resting against the pulley on the arm at a point opposite the point of contact between the pulley and the rope, a platform,aslide below the platform connected with said rope, and a registering device connected with the platform, substantially as set forth.

6. In a gate, the combination, with a standard, of al wire rope passed longitudinally through said standard, a spring connected with said rope, a counting or registering mechanism connected with and operated by said rope, and a series of arms mounted on the standard to swing on the same and connected to act on said rope when they swing', substantially as set forth.

In testimony' that I claim the foregoing as my invention I have signed my name in presence of two subscribing witnesses.

' ELIAS R. GUERRA.

iVitnesses:

OSCAR F. GUNZ, W. REIMHERR.

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